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NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today fixed December 8 for pronouncement of verdict in a case relating to the murder of former Railway Minister L N Mishra at a function in Bihar nearly 40 years ago. District Judge Vinod Goel, who had reserved the verdict for today, deferred it saying the judgement was not ready. "Judgement not ready yet. Put up for December 8," the judge said. After hearing the final arguments of the counsel for CBI and the four accused on September 12, the court had reserved its judgement for today.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce tomorrow its judgement in a case relating to the murder of former Railway Minister L N Mishra at a function in Bihar nearly 40 years ago. District judge Vinod Goel , who had reserved the verdict on September 12, had fixed the case for November 10 after hearing the final arguments of the counsel for CBI and the four accused. The final arguments had begun in September, 2012. The case relates to the bomb blast at the function attended by Mishra at Samastipur Railway Station on January 2, 1975.

HYDERABAD: A local court trying the case of multi-crore accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) may announce a date for verdict on October 30. CBI special public prosecutor K Surender said the court has ordered all the accused to appear before it on that date. The ten accused in the case include prime accused Satyam Computers founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju , his brother and Satyam's former MD B Rama Raju, ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas, former PwC auditors Subramani Gopalakrishnan and T Srinivas, Raju's another brother B Suryanarayana Raju, former employees G Ramakrishna, D Venkatpathi Raju and Ch Srisailam, and Satyam's former internal chief auditor V S Prabhakar Gupta.

By Alessandro Di Fiore In 2001 Peter Drucker wrote that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society". In such a society, a company's competitive advantage derives from a long under-developed asset: the capability to generate and apply insights and qualitative judgments to innovation. Consider Apple which has been built thanks to insights rather than analytics. Steve Jobs' resistance to quantitative research is well known. The trouble is that most companies use a number-driven approach to innovation.

CHENNAI: In swift compliance of the Supreme Court's directive while granting her bail in a disproportionate assets case, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa today asked her party workers to maintain law and order. Hours after the apex court granted her the major relief, Jayalalithaa, currently lodged in Bangalore Central Prison, in a statement also exhorted her party cadres not to "criticise or comment" on court orders delivered in the disproportionate assets case in which she was convicted.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court confirmed what many had feared: it scrapped 214 of 218 coal blocks allotted to different companies over more than 20 years. Of these, 38 are producing blocks. The court went by the government's assurance that it would manage things even if all the allocations were cancelled. It is now up to the government to quickly explain to the businesses that relied on coal from these 38 blocks, and to the banks that have lent to these businesses and to six more other projects that are ready to start mining the blocks they had been allotted, as to how precisely it proposes to manage things.

KOLKATA: The Supreme Court judgement on coal blocks will set the stage for the next stage of reforms on the coal sector. For one, it gives the government an opportunity to truly open up the market by allowing private investment, trading and entry of global players in the sector. In the short term, however, the court has allowed a breather of six months before the blocks are handed over to Coal India and this may lead to higher production from the operational blocks. Kameswara Rao, Leader (Energy Utilities& Mining Practice)

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today reserved its judgement on a plea seeking quashing of the city government's guideline banning "political advertisements" on public service vehicles even as it said that "as one political party got benefit out of it, so you want to ban it". "We cannot diminish the right of freedom of speech," a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Vibhu Bakhru said, adding "since you are not doing it, we will do it...

In a chat with ET Now, Deven Choksey, MD, KR Choksey Securities, shares his views on the Supreme Court judgement on coal mine allocation. Excerpts: ET Now: The crucial Supreme Court verdict today for the coal block allocation. Do you think it is going to be non-event as was the case last time around as well and the Supreme Court may not really take a harsh decision today? Deven Choksey: For sure, this is something important and market is going to take lot of direction from this.

United Nations: The head of UN peacekeeping operations has commended General Iqbal Singh Singha, the Indian force commander of the UN mission in the Golan Heights , for his "strong leadership" and "good and sound judgement" during a hostage crisis in the area last week. Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous backed Singha, who is being criticised by the Philippine military which said he should be investigated for allegedly asking Filipino troops to surrender to the Syrian rebels who had attacked and surrounded their camp.